To Want or Not Want Government Care?

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"We call taxes what they are, THEFT!"  Lol.  Yep, I agree.

Recent Elon Musk Quote From Youtube Video:
yeah i mean i would say like generally
i'm like i think pretty moderate i'm not
like sort of an extreme libertarian
um i
think there are roles for the government
uh that
makes sense like i don't think we
necessarily want like
a private army uh or
private police force or private yeah i
think
there's you know uh
certain things that
that are probably the the right role for
the government but anything done by the
government is going to be inefficient
um because the government is a monopoly
like people that don't like corporations
should not
somehow think that the government is
much is much better
because the government is
a corporation in the limit it is the
ultimate corporation
with a monopoly on violence
so
um it's like i think you know the right
role for the government is is like to be
uh acting a regulatory capacity um
and
but
we should
aspire to have the government be
be a a limited actor in the economy um
so
you know you could say like
what percentage of economic output
should be
uh governed you know um and
maybe
maybe a third or something like that you
know once you start getting above 50
government i think that's problematic
so
um you can look at countries like east
eastern west germany north and south
korea and there's
you know there was essentially an
arbitrary line drawn out to divide the
countries and east germany was
like kind of 100 government west germany
was i don't know probably at least 40
government they're like you know
relatively socialist
and yet the gdp per capita of that you
know of west germany was
i think five times higher than east
germany so that just shows you just how
big of a difference it is if
if you have like something that's close
to half government versus 100 government
uh private sector is probably a factor
of 10 more efficient than the government
um
and this like this is sort of
this is also true of just just generally
if you have like a monopolistic private
corporation
then
the forcing function for serving the
customer is weak
but at least private corporations can go
bankrupt and the government cannot go
bankrupt unless the people go bankrupt
like basically
unless it exhausts extracting
money from the population so well
they're trying their best so
yeah
it's just you know so just you want to
just
knowing that the government is
as inefficient as any large monopolistic
corporation would be
and it is the ultimate
large monopolistic corporation we should
minimize
how much the government does um
keep it to what is essential um and and
not go beyond that.

This is why I don't want the government's care because it usually is not an efficient use of my tax dollars.

I also think when you count all the taxes of federal, state, local, etc that taking more than 50% of what someone makes violates a basic human right to keep most of what you earn.